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What are 3 types of reservoirs |
Animal reservoir Human carriers NONliving reservoirs |
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What is Zoonoses |
Diseases naturally spread from animal to host |
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Acquire zoonoses though various routes |
Direct contact with animal or its waste, Eating animals, blood sucking arthropods |
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Contamination |
The mere presence of microbes in or on the body (but may not have an infection) |
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Infection |
When organism actually invades the body's external defenses, multiplies, and becomes established in the body |
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Portals of entry The major pathways |
Skin, mucous membranes, placenta, anywhere you can stick a pencil |
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Infection |
Is the invasion of the host by a pathogen |
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Disease |
Results if the invading pathogen alters normal body function |
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Symptoms |
Are subjective characteristics of disease felt only by patients |
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Signs |
Are objective manifestations of disease observed or measured by others |
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What is the role of Adhesion |
The ability of substance to stick to an unlike substance |
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How do microbes create infections |
The role of Adhesion |
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What helps with the role of adhesion |
Biophilms and Slim layer(Glycocalyx) layer (Glycocalyx) |
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Anything that can help a cell attach is called... |
An Adhesion Factor |
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A Symptom is |
How someone is feeling not something that can be measured |
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Sign |
Is something you can measure, see or observe |
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What are the causation of disease: Etiology |
Hereditary gene mutations Degenerative, such as organ failure due 2 old age |
Koch Postulates |
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The term disease is not only for infections it also can be due to genetic or old age |
Ture |
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Infectious diseases |
Caused by infection agent |
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Pathogrnicity |
Ability of a micro organism to cause disease |
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What is Ehiology |
This study of the cause of disease |
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What are the various causes of diseases |
Hereditary gene mutations, degenerative,such as organ failure, Infection with bacterium, virus, fungus, ect. |
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